“For pity’s sake, sweet bird, nae mair
Or my poor heart is broken.”
It sings whilst perched upon a tree, and sometimes its clear, tender notes may be heard ringing out during a fine summer’s night.
WOODLARK’S NEST AND EGGS.
The call notes of the species are a very musical double one, sounding something like lu-lu and tweedle, weedle, weedle, uttered on the wing.
The Woodlark, like the Tree Pipit, although roosting upon the ground, procuring its food and rearing its young there, must have some kind of timber, whether it be great belts of fir, with pastures and dry, heather-clad commons between, or bare hillsides with scattered clumps of oak and bushes here and there to make its home amongst.
NEWLY FLEDGED WOODLARK.
It is said to breed most numerously in the southern counties of England, occasionally in the north, and rarely in Scotland and Ireland. Its nest is very similar to that of the Common Skylark, but as a rule shows a little better workmanship, perhaps, in its construction. It is situated under a tuft of grass, in heather, or at the foot of a bush. Sometimes it is simply placed in a little hollow on ground which does not grow sufficient grass to form any kind of shelter or hiding.